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Mosquito-borne Diseases Dengue, Dog Heartworm, EEE, Malaria, SLE, WNV
(Green links are outside this website and open into a new window)
Anopheles gambiae mosquito, a malarial vector (photo by James Gathany). Click on the image to access the Public Health Image Library of the CDC for this and other images.
Why Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS
Dengue Fever Links
Dengue Fever - State Health Fact Sheet
Dog Heartworm
American Heartworm Society - Canine Heartworm Disease
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Malaria - 1992 NJMCA Symposium
Malaria Links
St. Louis Encephalitis Links
Regarding the recent outbreak of SLE (mosquito control applies as well to West Nile)
Frequently Asked Questions about St. Louis Encephalitis. - CDC
SLE Fact Sheet - CDC
Encephalitis outbreak summaries including SLE for the US.
West Nile Fever - Species List - Identifying Crows and Hawks - Kestrel ID and Notification
West Nile Alert and Facts Sheets - Protocols, guidelines, information by the NJ Department of Health.
NJDEP Office of Mosquito Control Coordination & New Jersey State Mosquito Control Commission
NJ Dept Agriculture West Nile Information - Equine oriented.
Cornell's Environmental Risk Analysis Program - click on West Nile
Cornell's WESTNILEVIRUS-L Listserve
Canada: Population and Public Health Branch (LCDC) WN Surveillance
Alabama: Public Health
Alaska: Epidemiology/Public Health
Arizona: Office of Infectious Disease Services and Vector-borne and Zoonotic Disease Section
Arkansas: Health Department
California: Vector-borne Disease Surveillance Program and West Nile Virus Surveillance Information Center
Connecticut: Department of Environmental Protection
Delaware: Department of Health
District of Columbia: Department of Health
Florida: Medical Entomology Laboratory (excellent encephalitis site) and Dept of Health and AG and Fish and Wildlife (Bird Mortality)
Georgia: Division of Public Health
Hawaii:
Idaho: Health and Welfare
Illinois: Public Health
Indiana: Dept. of Health
Iowa: Public Health
Kansas: Public Health and Kansas State University (report dead birds)
Kentucky: Department of Health
Louisiana: Health and Hospitals
Maine: Department of Human Services
Massachusetts: Department of Public Health
Michigan: Department of Agriculture
Minnesota: Department of Public Health
Mississippi: Division of Epidemiology/Virology
Missouri: Department of Health and Senior Services
Montana: Public Health and Human Services and Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department
Nebraska: Health and Human Services
Nevada:
New Hampshire: Dept Health and Human Services
New Mexico: Office of Epidemiology
North Carolina: Public Health Pest Management and Mosquito Programs and State Veterinarian
North Dakota: Arbovirus Encephalitis Surveillance Program
Ohio: Dept of Health and Ohio State University's Site
Oklahoma: Department of Health
Oregon:
Pennsylvania: West Nile Surveillance Program and Penn State's Site
Rhode Island: Dept Health and Dept Environmental Management
South Carolina: Dept of Health Fact Sheet
South Dakota: Department of Health
Tennessee: Communicable and Environmental Disease Unit
Utah:
Vermont: Dept Health
Washington: Environmental Health and Safety
West Virginia: Dept HHR and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Program
Wisconsin: Department of Health and Family Services
Guidelines for Arbovirus Surveillance Programs in the US. Provides epidemiological and environmental backgrounds to St. Louis, Eastern and Western Equine Encephalitis. (Requires Acrobat Reader - download free from http://www.adobe.com)
Hubalek's overview of West Nile fever outbreaks in Europe, arthropod vectors, transmission cycles and dead end hosts.
National Biological Information Infrastructure - good media links at end of article.
West Nile Virus Maps from National Atlas (USGS) (archive for 2000)
APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)- West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus (WNV) in Equids in the Northeastern United States in 2000 (pdf report)
Using Insect Repellents Safely - From EPA
Mosquito Control Methods - from our own website.
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